LIVE: Reform UK announces plans for mass deportation of illegal migrants

LIVE: Reform UK announces plans for mass deportation of illegal migrants

Farage: “I think there is a genuine threat to public order and a growing threat to national security”. “If you come to the UK illegally you will be detained and deported and never, ever allowed to stay, period.”

Yusuf: If you come to the country illegally, never allowed to stay. Those who arrive illegally, detained and deported.

Nigel Farage unveiled plans for mass deportations. The leader said the party would deal with illegal migration once and for all. Reform would set out five-year plan to detain and deport all migrants who arrive in the UK without permission

The Reform party leader said the plans would mean “mass deportation” of hundreds of thousands of migrants. The plans would prevent anyone entering illegally from ever being able to claim asylum.

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Some 600,000 asylum seekers could be deported in the first parliament of a Reform UK government, Nigel Farage indicated.

Nigel Farage said Britain not “closed minded” to genuine refugees and guaranteed those who served alongside the Army in Afghanistan given refuge.

Reform promises to leave the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Also repeal the Human Rights Act and disapply international treaties like the Refugee Convention.

He said: “There were brave Afghans who supported the British forces and American forces during that 20-year war, who, of course, absolutely, of course, deserve recompense for the enormous risks they took”.

Other action – pay countries for migrant return deals.

Labour says Reform’s plans written on the back of a fag packet.